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- One of the more comic characters of the American frontier, Al Jennings, born on November 25, 1863, was raised with his brothers Edward, Frank, and John at Kiowa Creek, Oklahoma, near the town of Woodward. The Jennings boys, sons of Judge J. D. F. Jennings, were a fun-loving lot who dreamed of becoming bandits.
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In 1895 he joined his brothers, Ed and John, in a law practice at Woodward. In October of that year Ed Jennings was killed, and John Jennings wounded, in a shootout with rival attorney Temple Lea Houston . Al Jennings Leavenworth mugshot in 1902.
Born in Virginia in 1863, Jennings and his family moved to Oklahoma and settled at El Reno. When he grew up, he attended law school and served as a prosecuting attorney in Canadian County from 1892 to 1894. He then joined his brothers, Ed and John, in a law practice at Woodward, Oklahoma, in 1895.
Al Jennings. The Jennings Gang was a short-lived group of outlaws that operated only a few months in Oklahoma, making several failed train robbery attempts in 1897. Comprised of brothers, Frank and Al Jennings; former Doolin Gang member, Little Dick” West; and brothers Morris and Pat O’Malley, the gang made several failed train robbery ...
hide. (Top) External links. Jennings Gang. The Jennings Gang (c. 1897) was a gang of outlaws in the closing days of the Old West, notable in that one member was a former Wild Bunch gang member, Richard "Little Dick" West, and the leader of the gang, Al Jennings, ran for Oklahoma Governor in 1914.
Al Jennings: The Most Inept Outlaw of the Old West. by Jay Robert Nash. One of the more comic characters of the American frontier, Al Jennings, born on November 25, 1863, was raised with his brothers Edward, Frank, and John at Kiowa Creek, Oklahoma, near the town of Woodward.
But U.S. Marshal Bud Ledbetter found the Jennings brothers hiding under some blankets on a wagon, and hauled them off to jail. A jury convicted them, and the judge sentenced Al Jennings to life in prison. At Leavenworth prison, Jennings befriended a bank teller from Austin named William Sydney Porter, who was in the slammer for embezzlement.
JENNINGS, ALPHONSO J. (1863–1961). An attorney, an outlaw, and a gubernatorial candidate, Alphonso J. "Al" Jennings was born in Virginia in 1863. Jennings settled at El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, and served as Canadian County prosecuting attorney from 1892 until 1894. In 1895 he joined his brothers, Ed and John, in a law practice at Woodward.
